Board of Aldermen 02-22-2022 Page 43
bed but just like the movies, remember the Jaws series? Just when you thought it was good to get one the water, they
come out with Jaws 2. Okay.
Well we put the masks to bed and now we're going to run right into the barriers. No pun intended. | did hear the public
speak. | got every single e-mail. | read every single e-mail. I’ve even seen some things on Facebook. Believe it or not at
the age of 67, | do look at Facebook mostly see what the grandkids look like. But the thing is one thing I'd have seen is a
lot of friction and lack of fact. | thank Alderman Clemons for pointing out that the Downtown Improvement Committee is
an advisory committee where Infrastructure and PEDC, the committee that is going to, is called “a policy committee”.
They will determine what to do. But what are they got to determine? | think we need to have something in front of us.
How is somebody going to eat dinner on an empty plate? | would like to see a steak, and mashed potatoes, and a good
vegetable.
Working with Tim Cummings, who | think is unfortunately being misrepresented and mistreated with this. He is our
downtown representative to boast of the downtown. He's doing his job but plans were made up. True. Some Aldermen
said we never heard anything. You got the same e-mails | did. Nothing came in. So we have, believe it or not, in the City
of Nashua we have traffic engineers and people that do the studies for us. This is how this packet came out.
Now, we've heard testimony in the past. One gentleman who is somewhat leading the charge brought up compromise.
The word “compromise”. Well, we'll see if that's a legitimate discussion because | think compromises have been made. If
we look at this presentation, so therefore folks if you want to decide which book you want to read between the facts and
the fiction, it's a perfect segway into the committee meetings but I'll hold until that particular section. | will give the dates
on when the barriers, and | put it on one night, is going to be discussed. And then we're gonna hear from all those people
that say that they want to speak. So the end result is the same. No magic. You got to keep in mind when we took this
office, we all took an oath. We're different than other people on the other side of the rail. We can't misrepresent the facts.
It's not worth it. So we put a good thing together because you’ve got to remember if somebody says, Oh, I'm losing
business. Well somebody else is telling me, I'm losing business too. How do you decide? Good Solomon had difficulty in
cutting the baby in half. So we’re gonna have to listen. I'm going to have an open mind as we read through this and we'll
see where it basically goes.
| would like to end on that and just say congratulation to Chief Rhodes. | remember when he was a Private and | was a
Company Officer. It was good to see him and wish him the best of luck. But somebody else is retiring and that is Deputy
Chief Glen MacDonald. | served as Deputy Chief and I'd like to recognize him because the Deputy Chiefs are the nuts
and bolts. They're the ones out there working nights, weekends, holidays, Christmases, all the rest of it. | did it for 15
years, every single fire, and Glen has done a good job and good service to the city. So | wish him the best of luck in his
retirement and as well to Chief Rhodes and congratulations to Chief Buxton.
President Wilshire
Thank you. So | just want to let my colleagues know, the public know that regarding the situation that happens, | heard
what you had to say, and I'm hoping that doesn't repeat, and I'll do my part. So | just want to make it clear to everyone
that | heard you.
So tonight | would like to offer my condolences to the family of Adam Gureckis, Jr. Adam’s father was a Ward 7 Alderman
for many, many years. Really, really super guy and his son - the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Adam Gureckis was a
high school athlete, really good at basketball. | think he played all the sports, but he will be missed.
Also Bill Marcoux. | went to school with Bill Marcoux. In fact, he and | were top in our sixth grade class. He was one
point ahead of me and | remember feeling | gotta do something about that. He was a great guy, really great guy and he
served on the Board of the Housing Authority for a number of years too. He will definitely be missed.
Also | want to thank Chief Rhodes for his service to the city. He's done a great job here and he leaves a legacy. My
congratulations to Steve Buxton for taking over the role of Chief. | think it’s well deserved. That’s all | have.
Committee announcements:
Alderman Dowd
Thursday, 7 o'clock, Joint Special School Building Committee at Nashua High North. It should be a fairly light agenda.
The other thing is that Alderman Sullivan went on a tour of Fairgrounds Middle School. That was the first one completed
in the middle school project and we've set that up for three o'clock on Thursday. If any other Alderman would like to join
